Ivy Models + Vine Ropes

[Groxkiller585]

Does anyone know where I can get any good, free ivy models? (credit isn't a problem, I can easily give credit where it is due)

I need some for a mappack I am making. I tried making them myself, first as textures but it looked poor, tried a model and that failed too (I am poor at modelling; convincing ivy is WAY past what I can do)

I do NOT wish to use the EP2 models as I wish to be able to redistribute said models, and doing so for EP2 would be illegal.

If that fails, does anyone know of a good program to make ivy models? Or a good place to get ivy textures? I REALLY need them for my map, if I cannot get them I will have to resort to vines, which brings up my second question:

How do you make transparent ropes?

I have tried $alphatest and $transparent, both do not work. I DID notice that default rope textures have an "unused" flag set that I cannot add to my textures by clicking it. Can VTEX get me this flag, and with what command?

If THAT fails I can deal, I will just make the vines static and add leaves via sprites but for realism purposes I really want to make it one rope texture.

TL;DR: I need ivy models/textures and know how to make rope textures transparent.

[marnamai]

Displacements + ivy overlay/texture with an alpha map

[Mess]

Displacements + ivy overlay/texture with an alpha map + propper

[cz_squishy]

No one is really going to care if you use the ivy models from EP2 in your mod, not even valve

[Groxkiller585]

Displacements + ivy overlay/texture with an alpha map + propper

This is how I made my ivy models, but they came out too flat. Plus the Hl2 textures sorta suck, don't fit my theme, and there's only too.

Also, the ivy will be hanging from the ceiling, so the player can see it from all degress from the ground.

No one is really going to care if you use the ivy models from EP2 in your mod, not even valve

You'd be surprised.

[dark0r]

No one is really going to care if you use the ivy models from EP2 in your mod, not even valve

You'd be surprised.

No really, they don't care. It's for a VALVe game, so I doubt they will shit themselves over an ivy model

[xopa]

http://graphics.uni-konstanz.de/~luft/ivy_generator/

you can play with that.
make some then take pictures.

too bad move_rope doesnt have an option to sprout quads along it.

[Groxkiller585]

No one is really going to care if you use the ivy models from EP2 in your mod, not even valve

You'd be surprised.

No really, they don't care. It's for a VALVe game, so I doubt they will shit themselves over an ivy model

Still, those do not suit my purpose, I am looking for longer and less clustered versions.

ooh, that looks promising, i will look into it..

[joe_rogers_11155]

I'm making a portal-themed map for HL2 Episode 2. I took some foliage from Left 4 Dead 2 (vines, grass, etc), and some of the models and textures from Portal. I know some people will gripe but I will wait for the guys at Valve to start griping before I reconsider my actions.

[Gradius]

They won't care within practical limits. That L4D map that was a repackaged TF2 map with all the TF2 resources never attracted any ire (although its possible you may have had to manually extract the resources, I'm not sure, but they did have it on the L4D2 blog).

[Groxkiller585]

ok, I know now it isn't a huge deal but it doesn't really help me because those models don't suit my purpose (though I may steal a few of thier textures)